Watt Trader RNG (CFW)

A guide for manipulating the daily highlight item from the Snowslide Slope Watt Trader NPC.

The Watt Trader NPC is located at the bottom of Snowslide Slope in the Crown Tundra. Each day, this NPC has a different highlighted item, such as the rare Dream/Beast Balls. This guide will focus on manipulating his daily highlight item for a desirable result.

Important - From here, we assume that you are familiar with key concepts described on the main page. If you are unsure about seed monitoring, advancement methods, or NPC calibration, please review the relevant sections before continuing.
In-game Requirements
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Figure 1 - RNG Tool Setup

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Getting Started (Tool Setup)
  1. Enter the IP address of your console in the main window and click Connect. This will automatically read your current seed and save file details.
  2. Set the weather in the Encounter Settings section of the main owoow window to the current weather condition in Snowslide Slope.
  3. At the top of the main owoow window, click Watt Trader to open the Watt Trader generator in a subwindow.
  4. Enter your search filters, then enter the number of advances you want to search in the + field. Usually you will find a result that produces a Dream/Beast Ball in 10,000 advances or fewer.
    • Dream/Beast Balls are the rarest highlight items offered. If you are targeting a different item, you should expect to see them even more frequently.
  5. Set the correct weather condition if you have not already done so. This should have imported into the Watt Trader subwindow automatically if you followed step 2.
  6. Tick the Consider Menu Close? checkbox, but do not calibrate your NPC count yet as we require a specific in-game setup, which will be explained below.

Figure 2 - Game Setup

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Getting Started (Game Setup)
  1. Head to the location in Snowslide Slope pictured above. If this is your first time, interact with the Watt Trader NPC at least once to unlock the fly point and complete his introduction.
  2. Verify the weather condition by checking the map. Ensure that this matches the setting in owoow.
  3. Move far enough away so that the NPC deactivates. You can tell if you are positioned correctly if he turns away and resumes his idle animation.
  4. Now you will need to position yourself optimally. This is done with a movement technique that disrupts the NPCs "activation":
  5. Calibrate your menu NPC count as usual. The expected NPC count when standing next to the Snowslide Slope Watt trader is 4. Enter your calibrated NPC count in the Watt Trader subwindow on owoow.
  6. Perform a date skip to refresh the daily highlight item. This can be done using owoow's date skipping features, the Raid exploit, or the PvP date skipping exploit.
  7. Save the game. This will preserve the current deactivated NPC state through resets. The menu NPC count will also remain long as you reopen the game on the same date or an earlier date.


Advancing Towards a Target

Step-by-step instructions for hitting a target frame can be found here.

Figure 3 - Target Found!

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Advancing Towards a Target

In this example, a frame that produces a Beast Ball can be seen on advance 100. We will aim to close the X Menu on this exact advance, then quickly interact with the NPC to lock in our desired result.

Note that the first two days of daily highlights are predetermined, which means our target item will be available on the third day. After we explain how to RNG manipulate the item, we will explain how to get to it.

Step-by-Step
  1. As we need to maintain our current positioning, advance towards the target using any method that does not cause the player to move.
    • If your target is over 10,000 advances away, consider using date skipping. Wet weather advancement is not possible since Rain/Thunderstorm are not available in Snowslide Slope.
    • For closer targets, consider using bike hopping or menu close.
  2. Stop advancing once you are ~200-500 advances before your target.
  3. Open the X Menu to pause the game.
  4. Click Update Seeds on the main window of owoow to send your current seed into the active subwindow.
  5. Ensure that the Consider Menu Close? checkbox is checked in the Digging Pa subwindow, and confirm that your NPC count has been calibrated and entered correctly. Search for your target again.
    • Do not use the Holding Direction? checkbox on owoow. Attempting to use direction hold will cause the NPC to activate and you will miss your target frame.
  6. From this point, use attack animations to reach the exact target frame.
  7. Close the Pokémon window so you are on the main X Menu.
  8. Unpause the game by pressing B. Do not touch the joystick when unpausing or you can lose the deactivated NPC state.
  9. Quickly interact with the Watt Trader NPC to lock in your desired item. To access your desired highlight item follow the steps directly below.
Accessing Our Daily Highlight

To get to our RNG manipulated highlight item, we will need to first clear the two stored highlight items before it.

  1. Exit out of the Watt Trader dialogue.
  2. Perform a date skip.
  3. Interact with the Watt Trader, which will put us on "day 2". It is not necessary to view the highlight item.
  4. Exit out of the Watt Trader dialogue.
  5. Perform another date skip.
  6. Interact with the Watt Trader again, putting us on "day 3".
  7. Check Today's Highlight. This should be your desired item.

Since the game stores up to two highlight items, it is possible to continuously RNG manipulate highlight items and pick up an earlier item at the same time when interacting with the NPC.


Figure 4 - Target Frame Hit!

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In Figure 4, we closed the X Menu on the desired target frame and quickly interacted with the Watt Trader. Simply interacting with him locked in our desired reward. Now we need to date skip using the previously-described method to have him show us the item in Today's Highlight.

Figure 5 - Result Found!

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After date skipping and interacting with the Watt Trader enough times, we can see that Today's Highlight features our desired item!

That's all there is to RNG manipulating the Snowslide Slope Watt Trader (CFW)!

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